SOLVED Chromium-browser won't start, profile in use.

[marchugo]

Since a few days chromium-browser won't start in MGA9.
Using the Konsole command chromium-browser results in this error message:

]$ chromium-browser
[178935:178935:0419/123931.019215:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(358)] The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (516466) on another computer (artis). Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium.

I uninstalled chromiun-browser and also uninstalled Chrome using MCC.
Then I reinstalled chromium-browser. But the same error message keeps coming.

I couldn't find how to unlock the profile (searched the internet).

Besides: there is no "other computer", I only have one pc.

Chromium was updated a few days ago per mgaapplet to version 1:134.0.6998.165-1.mga9.tainted


Any hints how to revice chromium?

Marc.

[Germ]

This command in a terminal:

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rm -rf ~/.config/chromium/Singleton*

That should fix it. Have you changed your hostname? That is usually the cause of the problem.

[marchugo]

Thanks Germ,

That fixed it.

And no, I didn´t change the hostname since years.

What else could have triggered this error?

Marc.

[Germ]

I'm really not sure, it's kind of a general thing. If chromium thinks there's a chance of corruption it will lock the profile. It's usually changing the hostname that causes it but not always.